Ángel Muñoz Carpintero

JSD Student

Home Country: Honduras
Cohort: 2025

Ángel Muñoz-Carpintero is a Honduran lawyer and received a LL.B. from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (cum laude) in 2021. In 2019, Angel interned at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras, later becoming an Associate Human Rights Officer in OHCHR's Rule of Law and Accountability Unit. During his time at OHCHR, he contributed to the organization's work on Persons Deprived of Their Liberty, citizen security and human rights, and the documentation of torture, extrajudicial execution and enforced disappearance cases.  He received a LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame in 2024 (magna cum laude). Angel wrote his LL.M. thesis on "The relationship between the right to privacy and the right of peaceful assembly and its implication in informational privacy international regulation." As a JSD candidate, he is currently researching the impacts of militarism in the justice systems of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.